Big Dry Creek Placers

Unknown in Arapahoe county in Colorado, United States with commodity Gold
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Land status
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10287471
MRDS ID D007919
MAS/MILS ID 0080050002
Record type Site
Current site name Big Dry Creek Placers
Related records 10012343

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Trench
Geographic coordinates: -104.95117, 39.58469 (WGS84)
Elevation 1692
Location accuracy 500(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Arapahoe(county)

Colorado(state)

United States(country)

North America(continent)

Land(continent)

USGS map quadrangles

Highlands Ranch(quadrangle 1:24,000 scale)

Denver East(quadrangle 1:100,000 scale)

Denver(quadrangle 1:250,000 scale)

Hydrologic units (watersheds)

Upper South Platte(hydrologic unit)

South Platte(hydrologic accounting unit)

South Platte(hydrologic subregion)

Missouri(hydrologic region)

Geographic areas

Country State County
United States Colorado Arapahoe

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary

Nearby scientific data

Trench (1) -104.95117, 39.58469

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Surface
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Land status

Ownership category Private

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REF: CRIB

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 17-NOV-83 Intermountain Field Operations Center (IFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

External references

Authoritative Colorado resources

These are landing pages for further research — the state agencies don't currently expose per-mine deep links.